Ex-New York Senate leader Dean Skelos asked an appeals court Monday for a new trial, citing the precedent set when former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver last month was granted a new trial on corruption charges.

Attorney Alexandra Shapiro wrote in papers filed with the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan that the Republican Skelos, like the Democrat Silver, is entitled to a new trial because public corruption laws were recently freshly defined by the U.S. Supreme Court.

“A man should not be deprived of his liberty by a jury that never even had to consider whether his conduct was criminal. Dean Skelos is entitled to a new, fair trial with a properly instructed jury,” Shapiro wrote.